Time Line

Axis Age/Golden Age- 479-431 BCE
Rome Sacked/ Falls to Barbarians- 410 BCE
Alexander the Great- 356-323 BCE
Constantine the Great- 230-337 BCE
Julius Caesar/ Fall of the Roman Republic- 410 CE
Battle of Tours- 732 AD
Charlemagne- 742-814 AD
Great Schism- 1054 AD
William the Conqueror- 1027-1087 AD
Crusades- 1096-1270 AD
Magna Carta- 1215 AD
Columbus Leaves Spain- 1492 AD

Great Schism(1054 A.D)

Q: Pope, Why did you excommunicate the patriarch of Constantinople?

A: I did that because I wanted to rule the church by myself and give the patriarch of Constantinople less power.

Q: patriarch of Constantinople, why did you excommunicate the Pope?

A: because he did it to me and wanted to give me less power so if I excommunicate him that will give him less power.

Q: Why was the Great Schism important?

A: Because it gave Rome and Constantinople there independence from the other churches.

Recourse's;

• "Great Schism." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 13 Nov. 2010

Columbus Leaves Spain(1492 A.D)

Q: Was it hard to let the King of Portugal let you go on the voyage?

A: Yes, i was very hard to get the king to let me leave. I came to him with the idea in 1484, but they said no. So I went to the Queen of Spain,Queen Isabella, and proposed my idea to her, but she rejected them because she thought that the idea was too expensive, but seven years later I finally got her to let me go, I got three ships; the Nina and Pinta, and the Santa Maria.

Why did you leave Spain?

A: I left Spain in search for land in 1942, i crossed the Atlantic for 29 Days. And on  October 7, 1492, we spotted land. I named it San Salvador, we also explored several other islands in the Caribbean. We captured Indians and took exotic things to bring back to Europe, when we got back the Queen was pleased to see what we had found and we were treated like hero's.  

Q: Why Was this important?

A: Because if Columbus didn't leave Spain we might not have found the Caribbean and the Americas.

Recourse's;

• "Columbus, Christopher." International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. Ed. William A. Darity, Jr. 2nd ed. Vol. 2. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2008. 19-22. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 13 Nov. 2010.

Charlemagne(742 A.D-814 A.D)

Q: Charlemagne, what happened to your brother, how did you become ruler of your entire kingdom?

A: Well, when my father, King Pepin, died my brother and I became king’s of the franks, the land was split in half for us, but I got the bigger half of the kingdom, so my brother and I got into fights and one day he woke up dead, and I became ruler of the entire kingdom.


Q: What made your empire so special?

I wanted to re-create the roman empire, so I expanded from the Elbe River in the northeast to south of the Pyrenees in the southwest and from the North Sea to southern Italy. I enjoyed art and poetry, and i helped bring back some of that back to the ‘Holy roman empire’.

Q: Why were you important?

A: I was important because he expanded the holy roman empire.

Recourse's;

• "Charlemagne." Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2nd ed. Vol. 3. Detroit: Gale, 2004. 445-447. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 12 Nov. 2010

Crusades(1096 A.D-1270 A.D)

Q: Pope erban II, What was the purpose of the Crusades?

A: Well, there were 9 of them. During the crusades the  European Christians wanted to conquer Muslim-controlled territory.

Q: So Pope erban II, What did the Crusades bring back to Europe?

A: The Crusades brought knowledge and they ended the dark ages.

Q: Why were the Chrusades important?

A: Without the crusades Europe might not have gotten out of the dark ages when they did.

Recourse's;

• Hayes, Dawn Marie. "Crusades." Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity. Ed. Dinah L. Shelton. Vol. 1. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2005. 220-223. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 12 Nov. 2010.
• Calvo, Sherri Chasin. "The Crusades." Science and Its Times. Ed. Neil Schlager and Josh Lauer. Vol. 2: 700 to 1449. Detroit: Gale, 2001. 11-14. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 12 Nov. 2010

Magna Carta (1215 A.D)

Q:So King John, Who made you sign the magna carta, and why?

A: Well,  An English army made me sign it, so that I would have to obey the law that they made.

Q: What Was the point of the magna carta?

  A: the point of this was to clarify the King’s power over the church, clergymen, and the people of certain towns and that the states got control over the barons. But a couple weeks after he signed it he rejected it and didn't want to follow it, and this started a civil war called the First Barons’ War, during this war King John was killed.

Q: Why is the magna carta important?

A: The Magna Carta is important because it showed that the people wanted to have some responsibility.


Recourse's;

• "Magna Carta." U*X*L Encyclopedia of U.S. History. Sonia Benson, Daniel E. Brannen, Jr., and Rebecca Valentine. Ed. Lawrence W. Baker and Sarah Hermsen. Vol. 5. Detroit: UXL, 2009. 941-943. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 10 Nov. 2010.

Battle of Tours (732 A.D)

Q: So Charles Martel, who was this battle against?

A: well,  it was ageist me and my army, and invading Muslims from Spain.

Q: Did you know the Muslims were coming, what happened during the battle?

A: I knew that the Muslims ere coming so we waited for them, when the Muslims came both armies stood there for four days, then they fought the Muslim general was killed and we won, It was a major win for us because I prevented the Muslims from coming in and spreading there religion, this helped keep Christianity the main religion of Europe, and because of this major win I was renamed Charles the Hammer.

Q: Why was this important?

A:Without Charles Christianity might not have survived as a religion in Europe and might not have spread to the United States.

Recourse's;

• "Battle of Tours." World History: Ancient and Medieval Eras. ABC-CLIO, 2010. Web. 10 Nov. 2010.
• The Dark Ages : The History Channel : The Fall Of Rome, The Rise Of The Barbarians. Dir. Chris Cassle. Perf. Histrory Channel. New Video, 2006. DVD.